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More details of the Lenovo Laptop with dual screens

Slashgear has more pictures of the Lenovo Laptop with dual screens. Still loving it.

LINK :: Slahsgear - Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds Details

I lost a few posts in the upgrade?

Just to let you know we upgraded, not me but ITKE, the blogging software and I think I lost a few posts when they did it. I will try to get them up.

Would you want to see video blogging here?

I have been playing with video blogging, and wondered if that would be something you would want to see here?

This can’t be good - SUN to lay off 6000 employees

It’s not going to be easy to get throught this hard economic time. Sadly SUN was not in a position I think to survive it anyway. They have been on the bubble for years. I wish all the empoyees who got thier walking papers good luck, there are jobs out there you just have to be creative.

LINK :: Sun to lay off 6000 Workers

Running a Users Group - Jim Grisanzio

Jim writes an blog post that I found is not just for OpenSolaris User Groups, but could be used for all User Groups. Thanks Jim for the great post and sharing you thoughts on the matter.

LINK :: Jim Grisanzio -  Running Successful OpenSolaris User Groups

I tried at one time to get the Colorado Lotus Users Group back up and running and kind of hit a brick wall after the first year. In Charlotte by accident I kind of started a group of users we call, Lunch Time Geeks or LTG, and we just meet for lunch. No agenda, no meeting, just hanging out and eating. Maybe I can grow it from there? Maybe not?

I’m Back y’all. Did you miss me?

So I am back in Charlotte, home. For at least a few days. There is no GAS anywhere to be found and seems like none for a few weeks. Feels like the end of the world around here?

Blackberry STORM on Slashgear

Slashgear has some leak photos of the new Blackberry STORM, and  I for once am excited about a new Blackberry model. I know a new Blackberry has nothing to do with the IBM i, it does impact all of our worlds. Most of you out there have a phone or a Blackberry and now according to the specs the STORM is going to have a touch screen, which is awesome.

BTW: When I cap STORM, I am not yelling I am only using the caps keys to point out the name.

Cutting back IT fro the TOP

I ran across an article that points out the following premises: If you trying to cut cost start at the TOP of IT instead of the bottom.

“If you are managing an IT shop and can’t write the code to render “hello world” in C, html, php, and pull “hello world” from a MySQL database using a perl script, then YOU are in the wrong job.”

While I agree with this observation I don’t think anyone will implement this plan. Most companies think that getting rid of the workers at the bottom are a better bet. Case and Point. I worked for a Software company once as a Sales Engineer. While they kept on an aged IT manager and moved him from California to Georgia and his salary they let all kinds of people go at the bottom. I am sure he made well over $130K, while I was not pulling down that much. So they could have let him go and kept some people who worked for a living. I am not bitter about it, everything has really worked out well from then, but I got a chance to go back and work for the aged CIO and I can tell you he lacked the ability to do much of anything and should have been let go before anyone esle was.

“As I have written before, one of the great problems in IT management is that the big bosses typically haven’t a clue what is happening, what is needed to happen, and what it all should cost. There is a role for trust here, but if the Big Guy is signing off on a budget he can’t even read, much less understand, well something is wrong. Some IT departments like this, of course, just like my students liked it when class had to be cancelled (they liked getting LESS for their money), but in tough times, facing reality and speaking the truth is usually the best course.”

LINK:: Fire Your Boss: The best place to cut IT organizations is generally at the top.

Thanks for coming here

I do see all you i people coming here and I do thank you. While this may not be the most popular blog on ITKE, it has some passion behind it and make sure you tell your friends I am here and blogging my little heart out.

Again THANKS!

Good week for Blogging

It was not a hard week at work. I had a chance to blog and keep you all up today. Hope you all have a good weekend. See you all next week. I have some stuff to post this weekend.